Theos-Talk Archives (March 2000 Message tt00066)

Ernesto hi ..
This is such a good question To good to let pass by.
It is so hard to explain or give an answer too... here is my two cents
worth.
In considering the purity of the monadic self what is if our  evolution take

us from the most simple creation to the most complex
which is the closest to the universal or cosmic consciousness.
where timelessness is concerned where does infinity fit in.
perhaps we should leave the chains and manvataric and pralayas to the hindus

and concentrate in the here and now. And bring the awareness of our
divinity to mankind regardless of yesterday and tomorrow.

ernesto wrote:

> Friends:
>
> It is said that evolution is a universal law.  In accordance to this,
> also,  it is said that each new human sub-race is a litlle step higher
> than the past ones in the spiritual way of humanity.  Age by age,
> humanity evolutions more and more.
>
> But there is something about this that could be a doctrinal problem.
>
> SD teaches the idea of evolution, but at the same time, teaches also the
> doctrine of the manvantara periods.  Still more, as I remember, it is
> said by SD that we are living in the Kali Yuga period of the actual
> Manvantara.
>
> That we are living in the Kali Yuga period is, certainly, a traditional
> idea that we can find in the East.
>
> In accordance to the doctrine of the Manvantara Periods, the Manvantara
> begins with a Golden Age, and one by one, the following three periods
> are caractherized by a progresive, each time faster, degeneration of
> humanity.  Age by age, men loose Spiritual Truth, and it becomes each
> time more difficult for them to find the Eternal Light.  At the end of
> Kali Yuga, it is said that universal lie will be considered the Truth.
>
> Even more, if the last time of Kali Yuga is going to be in opposition to
> the beginning of the Golden Age, and if it is understood that trough the
> Great Religions underlies the same truth, remembering the Christian idea
> that at the end of the times there will be an Antichrist (so called
> symbolically), that will send to the world people able to make miracles,
> capable to loose the choosen people of saints if it were possible, as it
> is written, then, may be there is no mistake (I am just making a
> question) if we say (as René Guénon did) that in the end of Kali Yuga
> lie will be taken as truth, and truth as lie, and so, the real doctrine
> (that would be the doctrine of the progressive degeneration of humanity
> during a Manvantara) will be taken as false, while the false doctrine
> (that, in this supposition, would be the doctrine of evolution) will be
> assumed as true.
>
> Could this reasons make us suppose, then, that the sense of history in a
> Manvantara is not evolution? And if it were so, how can we understand
> that in the SD, it is taught at the same time evolution and the doctrine
> of Manvantara and Kali Yuga?
>
> If there were a good answer for this, wich is the time-relation between
> the four ages of a Manvantara, and the Seven Races of humanity? Are
> these two kind of cycles in harmony? How?
>
> And if, again, there were a good answer for this, do you know what is
> the teaching of Theosophy about the profecy of the Antichrist in all
> this scheme? Could it be true that the Devil (whatever it is under the
> symbol) has his anti-saints, as it is said in the Mahometan Tradition,
> the people able to make miracles for confusing world, as it is said in
> the Byble? If it were so, have any of this black saints manifested
> themselves in any of the actual "saints", or "gurus", or some like that?
>
> I hope you can help me about these matters, because I still don´t have
> any answers for these questions.
>
> Sorry if these questions themselves may sound heretic, but I think it is
> better to have things clear.
>
> Thanks,
>
> DCG.
>
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